Just for kicks, and inspired by this xkcd comic, I wrote a program to output the number of Google search results for a search using various variables. After running several searches, I learned that automated queries are against Google’s Terms of Service. Regardless, here are a few results:
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Yesterday I went to Vasona Lake Park, where the annual Silicon Valley Duck Race and festival was being held. The race, organized by Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley, is a charity race benefiting 16 local charities. The festival consisted of carnival games, bounce-houses, face painting, sponsor booths, a Home Depot clinic for kids to
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On Memorial Day weekend the Mission District in San Francisco hosted its annual Carnaval festival and parade – a two-day celebration of the rebirth of life in Spring as celebrated by many different Latin American cultures. Chrystie and I got up early on Sunday to get to the city and catch the parade. The three-hour
(Continued from Part 1.) The next morning I woke up sore and hot with what I was sure was a cold from another sub-freezing night. With as much excitement as we could muster, Chrystie and I initially wanted to take the very scenic 39-mile drive to Tuolumne Meadows and do some hiking. To our utter
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On April 14th the Sharks began their playoff run, and I began growing my playoff beard – a recent tradition among athletes and fans that I began doing during the Sharks short-lived playoff run last year. The gist of the playoff beard is, when your team enters the playoffs you shave, and you don’t shave
Last Saturday, Chrystie and I drove to Yosemite for a 4-day camping trip. Reservations for camping spots in Yosemite start in January and go quickly with it being the third most visited national park, surprisingly beating out Yellowstone. We stayed in the Hodgdon Meadow campground, less than a mile from the Highway-120 entrance to Yosemite,
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Last weekend, Chrystie and I went to Napa for one day of wine tasting and one day of volunteering at the Tour de Cure in Yountville. The Tour is a benefit race held by the American Diabetes Association and raises money for diabetes research. We went last year and enjoyed ourselves so much, we decided
Well, it’s the end of an era. Last Friday I went into Best Buy and bought the Droid Incredible – just the third cell phone I have ever owned. My LG C2000 clamshell phone with the Cingular logo still on it was just not cutting it anymore. The C2000 has been at my side (in
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A few days ago, I was looking up the history of webpages for another blog post and came across the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive was something I had heard of before, but the Wayback Machine was surprisingly new to me. Being into computers and an appreciator of history, I found this site
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(Continued from WonderCon 2010 (part 1)) Chrystie and I then made our way to get in line for a panel of forensic psychiatrists discussing the mental disorders that plague the inmates of Arkham Asylum. Unfortunately the amount of people in line to get into the room was enough to fill the room at least three
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